Christopher Faylor wrote:
[...]
The attached program demonstrates the assumption that only
stdin/stdout/stderr are open when the program is started. A shell could
conceivably keep other fds open.
Try applying the below patch to gain the behavior that you want.
I had already tested a version which closes all descriptors closed and
found no difference...
The problem was initially reported for smartd daemon in smartmontools
Mailinglist.
As a quick workaround, I added FreeConsole() after setsid() to smartd.c
Christian
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